{"id":739700,"date":"2026-08-16T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739700\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:44:08","slug":"twelve-killed-as-polish-bus-veers-off-hungarian-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739700\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve killed as Polish bus veers off Hungarian motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured when a Polish tourist bus veered off a Hungarian motorway and into a ditch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the bus overturned after coming off the M3 motorway, which connects Hungary&#8217;s capital Budapest with the north-eastern city of Ny\u00edregyh\u00e1za, at around 01:00 local time on Sunday (23:00 GMT on Saturday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers believe the driver fell asleep at the wheel. He has been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thirty-five out of the 57 passengers and two drivers onboard have been rescued by firefighters so far, state media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services had been attempting to lift the rear axle of the 24-tonne bus to remove the people trapped underneath before cranes arrived to lift the whole vehicle, according to news agency MTI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hungary&#8217;s ambulance service said it had treated one person with life-threatening injuries, nine people with serious injuries and a further 37 people with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The country&#8217;s Prime Minister P\u00e9ter Magyar offered his &#8220;sincere condolences&#8221; to the families of the victims and wished those injured a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured when a Polish tourist bus veered off a Hungarian motorway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-739700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}